Licensed & proprietary data deals
Publisher and platform data-licensing market
As open web text runs dry and copyright suits mount, labs now sign licensing deals with publishers (News Corp, Reddit, Shutterstock, academic presses) for training and grounding data. This monetized data market and the NYT-vs-OpenAI-style litigation are reshaping the economics and legality of pretraining corpora.
Examples
Reddit, News Corp, Shutterstock
Litigation
NYT v. OpenAI
How it fits the stack
Licensed & proprietary data deals with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
Licensed & proprietary data deals in the AI stack. Licensed & proprietary data deals with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 3 entities, 2 relationships
- Licensed & proprietary data deals —depends on→ Copyright & AI litigation
- OpenAI —supplies→ Licensed & proprietary data deals